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@ali-pahlawan with these sites, you have to ask yourself which option sounds more true:

• somebody has created a highly performing EA that yields high results, over-performing even the most successful hedge funds in the world and then sells their life's biggest achievement online for couple hundred dollars
• somebody just wants to collect money from desperate fools as much as they can, before their intents become obvious

Which one of these sounds more believable, and also requires less knowledge, coding skills and moral from the seller?

If someone wants to draw a line simply by pressing control and clicking with mouse, apparently this is the way to do it.

Currently EA still has some problems detecting continuous key press, so some fast draws are not recognized, not sure why..

https://fxdreema.com/shared/5MQJXkssb

Edit: Found a more optimal way to do it, here's whole project https://fxdreema.com/shared/Nljbbatub

@nandu here's your strat. Its not going to make you millionaire

The problem is, you have chosen a very long and stable down trend as your example - literally ANY selling strategy makes money in that situation. In reality, the market isnt always trending so nicely.

https://fxdreema.com/shared/hVZSGCXje

Update 29.8.2023: Refactored the EA to work on modern hedging method mt5 accounts. Also simplified the strategy to what matters the most (theres lots of useless/low impact stuff in original version), in essence the strategy is this:

• Build long/short positions with RSI
  - When above 70, sell
  - When below 30, buy
  - Before selling/buying another time, wait for the RSI to visit level 50. This discourages trading against strong trends.
• There must be a mechanism that favors closing the positions rather than letting long/short position grow bigger and bigger
  - Only allow the position to grow if price is above daily median (buy) or below median (sell)
  - Trades that shrink the total position don't have that rule, so positions naturally stay small
• Lastly, limit the trading actions to more volatile half of the day by comparing fast and slow ATR values

The reduced strategy is not quite as profitable as the original one, but still clearly on the black after 6700 trades. Feel free to add your ideas to this.

https://fxdreema.com/shared/rCGHpDKod

I played with objects today, and made some EA using regression channels.

Its a huge mess. But there is something I like about this monster.

Its not optimized in any way, but I thought why not share this, maybe it inspires someone.

The project is so huge the browser builder doesn't seem to load it, so here's the .mq5 (compile it in your metaeditor)

This works (least horribly) on EURUSD, M30. You can use open price -only testing, I designed that way.
0_1524336136732_LINEAR2.mq5
0_1524347440090_LINEAR2.1.mq5

Part 2: Here's a simple project that "remembers" recent highs and lows, using slow macd. Next I'm going to implement the regression channel to this
https://fxdreema.com/shared/BhZLMirre

0_1524424247750_LINEAR3.mq5

Hi!
Creating another comment block will not work, because then the comments will just overlap.
You need to update the existing comment. This needs a text variable:

Creating the variable:

Now you can just comment the "status" variable, and you will see whatever is stored inside it.
https://fxdreema.com/shared/DSbRDedY

Here's the project: https://fxdreema.com/shared/YtCrSX5qb

This only works on mt5 with netting accounting.
I will not convert this to mt4, or even mt5 with hedging accounting, because:

• I'm feeling lazy
• I really recommend you to use mt5 with netting. Very often someone asks here in forum to calculate average entry, or close buys and sells together. Netting account does this automatically -> your EA developing is much more simple, multiplying your chances of success.

I'll continue to add some filters or otherwise fine-tune this system, may inform here or not.

@ambrogio tested in netting mode, and it works ok.. Maybe it is confusing the modes, calculating average price of all those buys. I dont use that block myself

@moon
Use a variable to store the previous balance:
https://fxdreema.com/shared/LmbanX11b

I was suspecting that my EA is not fully symmetric - for some reason it took way more sell trades. To make sure the difference is not simply because of market conditions, I wanted to make an EURUSD pair that is a mirror of itself. If my EA was actually symmetric, now there should be more buy trades.

Well, here's how to do a mirrored EURUSD. First open your symbols menu (ctrl + u) and then hit "Create Custom Symbol".

Then:

@sidmcfarland I think you are on to something... I even modified the example so that there is no cross operator, just two separate conditions with candle ID 1 and 2 (= how the cross theoritically works).
Even then I dont get a line on one particular cross.

https://fxdreema.com/shared/PY7X9YzLc

Connect like this:

https://fxdreema.com/shared/oRPyrJOBd

@bardiamsa its EURUSD 5 minute. Read the posts for more info, especially about account type

@fxDreema I understand, both of your points.

I have just seen some "EA builders" offered by brokers, and they are always miles, light years behind fxdreema. This is the iPhone of EA industry lol

@andy10e6
Perhaps you just made a mistake in some setting.. Here's a simple setup:
https://fxdreema.com/shared/9eXGa602c

Impressive work, that takes a lot of dedication.

But I can't help myself saying, with some custom code knowledge you can do this in 5-10 blocks max

https://fxdreema.com/shared/UScVXvclc

I use the loop block every day, no problem whatsoever. Please make some kind of example project

Hmm, I am getting trades with that exact system:

Useful stuff. Can be also done with the Math functions: https://fxdreema.com/shared/8uD2zZgpe

When using the Candle price selection in a different pair than the current chart, the result is rounded to nearest integer. I hope this gets fixed before too many users lose their mind troubleshooting their multi-currency projects (like I did lol).

Tested on mql4.
https://fxdreema.com/shared/wNcSJRJkd